Ground squirrels in the genus include promiscuous, polygynous, and monogamous species. (Credit: Sinervo et al., Amer. Nat. 2019) An alpine marmot from Lac d’Anglas, Pyrenees, France. The alpine marmot ...

Emily Smith-Greenaway, Jenny Trinitapoli, Polygynous Contexts, Family Structure, and Infant Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa, Demography, Vol. 51, No. 2 (April 2014 ...

Ant colonies may have a single or several reproductive queens (monogyny and polygyny, respectively). In polygynous colonies, colony reproduction may occur by budding, forming multinest, polydomous ...

Monogamy mystery This observation clashes with the fact that men are significantly larger than women. This suggests our evolutionary background involved a significant degree of polygynous, rather ...

Monogamy mystery This observation clashes with the fact that men are significantly larger than women. This suggests our evolutionary background involved a significant degree of polygynous, rather than ...

Among polygynous species – e.g., rhesus macaques, squirrel monkeys and, indeed, nearly all primates (human as well as nonhuman) – males mature more slowly and thus, they reach social and ...

Among polygynous species – e.g., rhesus macaques, squirrel monkeys and, indeed, nearly all primates (human as well as nonhuman) – males mature more slowly and thus, they reach social and ...

Monogamy mystery This observation clashes with the fact that men are significantly larger than women. This suggests our evolutionary background involved a significant degree of polygynous, rather than ...

Footprints discovered in Laetoli, in Tanzania, suggest that 3.66 million years ago the species that "Lucy" belongs to, Australopithecus afarensis was polygynous. (Image credit: David A. Lurino) ...

Women involved in polygynous relationships are often poor, rural and illiterate – but that doesn’t mean that the affluent traditionalists are immune to disputes over matrimonial property rights.